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"A gifted imagination. . . . Discover Richard Bowes." — Locus on Warchild
When New Yorkers with lots of money and little imagination want to have fun, they hire Robert Leal. Known as a game master, Leal creates decadent fantasies through interactive theater to distract his patrons from their dull realities, and help him ignore his own decaying mortality. Then he begins hearing the voice of Chris Kane, an old friend who's been dead for twenty-seven years.
The music of the Feral Cell, Chris's transdimensional band, becomes inescapable for Robert. He hears it everywhere he goes, calling out to him from an idyllic alternate world threatened by unrelenting evil. Joining forces with Chris, Robert will transcend planes of life and death—flesh in one world and spirit in the other—to face a battle that will unlock the very secrets of his soul.
Originally published in 1987.
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Richard Bowes was a mainstay of the New York City science fiction scene and set most of his work in alternate versions of the city. His debut novel Warchild was originally published in 1986, and was followed by a sequel, Goblin Market (1988), and Feral Cell (1987). He was best known for his short fiction, with seven Nebula Award nominations for his stories, plus one World Fantasy Award nomination and two wins for "If Angels Fight" (2008) and "Streetcar Dreams" (1997). "There's a Hole in the City" (2005) won the International Horror Guild Award. His other books include the Lambda Award–winning fix-up novel, Minions of the Moon (1999), Nebula Award finalist From the Files of the Time Rangers (2005), and the World Fantasy Award–nominated Dust Devil on a Quiet Street (2013). His other collections include Transfigured Night and Other Stories (2001), Streetcar Dreams and Other Midnight Fancies (2006), The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (2013), and If Angels Fight: Stories (2013).
